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🕒 May 19

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Aspire Software

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1001 - 5000 employees

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

🤝 B2B

SaaS • Enterprise • B2B

Aspire Software is a company that focuses on acquiring and nurturing businesses with a strong foundation in outstanding products and passionate teams. As part of the Valsef Group, Aspire Software offers resources, knowledge, and a suite of best practices to enhance and expand operations for continuous improvement and sustainable growth. The company emphasizes decentralization to unlock innovation and adaptability within its acquired entities. Aspire Software is dedicated to serving its customers through long-term technology partnerships, leveraging capital and expertise in various verticals to grow both the businesses and individuals involved.

📋 Description

• Lead the engineering team and the technical strategy for ProgressionLIVE. • Own the platform technical roadmap and translate it into concrete, executable engineering plans aligned with business objectives. • Make and defend architectural decisions. • Evolve the Java backend (Spring + Hibernate) and the web frontend (Vue 3 / TypeScript). • Own the mobile strategy. • Ensure the reliability, security, and scalability of a multi-tenant SaaS operated on AWS. • Establish and maintain modern engineering practices. • Manage the platform's security posture. • Track key technical metrics: uptime, performance, code quality, velocity, technical debt. • Lead the adoption of agentic AI tools across the development lifecycle. • Coach developers, QA, and DevOps in practical use of tools. • Design and deliver agentic workflows that enhance team productivity. • Identify high-leverage automation opportunities within engineering. • Recruit, mentor, and grow the engineering team.

🎯 Requirements

• More than 7 years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years in a technical leadership role (team lead, engineering manager, lead developer, software architect, or equivalent). • Strong backend credibility. Able to read and reason about a Java monolith (Spring + Hibernate), understand its trade-offs, and lead a team that maintains and evolves it. • Strong frontend instincts. Proficiency in modern Vue or React ecosystems with TypeScript, sufficient to make architectural decisions and review delivered work. • Deep AWS experience: Elastic Beanstalk, EKS, Aurora, S3, SES, IAM, networking. Experience operating a multi-tenant SaaS in production, with a clear opinion on trade-offs between managed services, containers, and serverless. • Database design experience. Experience with Amazon Aurora MySQL or equivalent, with perspective on multi-tenant schema design and query performance at scale. • Mastery of CI/CD and IaC: GitHub Actions, Terraform, and an understanding of what a pipeline that deploys to production actually looks like. • Practical security background. Able to read a SAST/DAST report, triage vulnerabilities by real risk, and lead the response. • Experience with mobile platforms. Understanding trade-offs between native and hybrid approaches, mobile API design and versioning, backward compatibility, offline behavior, and synchronization. • Product sense. Understanding that the best technical decisions are made in service of the user and the business. Experience in a product-driven environment. • Demonstrated, hands-on use of agentic AI tools in your own daily work.

🏖️ Benefits

• 4-day workweek • Remote work • Group insurance after 3 months (50% paid by the company, family option) • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Corporate medical program • Group RRSP (employer retirement savings plan) • 3 weeks of vacation from the first year (available after 3 months) • Regular social and sports activities • Annual training budget • Annual personal budget (sports gear or remote work equipment) • Coffee, snacks and a positive atmosphere guaranteed at the office